This document describes the replication files associated with:
Kentaro Fukumoto and Hirofumi Miwa. "Share the Name, Share the Vote: A Natural Experiment of Name Recognition." Journal of Politics.

The following files are contained herein:
(a) datasetA.csv 
dataset in which the unit of observation is national candidate * year
(b) datasetB.csv
dataset in which the unit of observation is local candidate * year
(c) datasetC.csv
dataset in which the unit of observation is national candidate * prefecture * year
(d) replication.R
R code to replicate all the analyses in order of appearance in the main text and Online Appendix

Instructions:
Put CSV files (a)-(c) in your working directory and run R file (d).

Information on a statistical software and packages:
All data analyses in this article were carried out using R version 3.3.1, lfe package version 2.5-1998, and sandwich package version 2.3-4.

Information on how to replicate the data preparation procedure:
Files for creating CSV files (a)-(c), written in Japanese because the data sources are written in Japanese, are available at the following URL. Files (a)-(d) are also uploaded here.
http://www-cc.gakushuin.ac.jp/~e982440/research/replication/

If you have any questions or find any problems with the files, please feel free to contact the authors.